It is really funny to see the biases in this quiz. I might have done "worse" if some of the questions were different. As an example, I currently rent 2 different places - one in NJ, and another in WI due to out of state work. I guess I'd have a double footprint on that...as well as several other areas. Either way - my personal offshoot day is....January 20th. 18.7 earths.

7.5 Earth's for me. That test is so eco-biased, it's ridiculous. I'm nervous that I had to give them my e-mail address to start the test; they might report me to the EPA.

Funny...or what we used to call: Puerto Rican Fence Climbers!....

(Note for the audience: This is a SHOE!!! and not a racial entity).

I have a Remington 870 Express Magnum 12-guage pump gun.
It shoots pellets. Giggle! Giggle! Giggle!
Well, you can load it with bird shot. That will work on rabbits and squirrels.
I originally bought the gun when invited to a dove shoot anyhoo.
Recently noticed that it is listed among the top ten home defense weapon.
I picked the weapon due to NRA qualifying with it once a year for 21 years.
That shotgun is on prison towers where I used to work.

Kind of like if a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it. If all the people were off of the planet
Who would know what is here? and who would care?

I got Nov 2 -- I have solar panelsm I don't waste paper or plastic, my car has accumulated 4k miles in the last 10 years, etc, etc...

But the survey asks questions like: "Do you have running water in tour house?" "Do you have electricity?" The answer I wanted to give them was a resounding basso-profundo "F&@% YOU!" but there was no option for comments.

I wonder how many resources the creators of that survey squandered on the survey itself. These Ultra-Green morons are a waste of Oxygen.

"How many people actually believe this " rls1951
Far too many I suspect, hell 50,000,000 or so voted for the evil hag in the US.

I hear you Dino. I am thinking of adding rabbits to the menu they seem to eat more than their share of veggies from my garden.
Can anyone recommend a good pellet gun?

LOL Thanks for that pledge.

Yes and yet today we are awash in oil and nat gas.
We may be wrong about how oil formations deplete.

Very well put. I would like to see your results it only took a few minutes.

Awesome response, necessity is the mother of invention.

My overshoot date is February 18th and 7.5 earths. Who thinks up these calculations. And how many people do you think actually believe in this? Just one more fabricated measurement that will soon be mainstream.

Stomp! Stomp! Hear me roar!
I live like a dinosaur!
According to the econazi (and I did not bother with the details option) test, me dino needs a dinosaurian 5.5 earths!
I say I only need one Earth due to the fact that, where I live, every grocery store is filled with food on every Dec. 31.

From a wingtip.

PLEDGE 1: I try a new vegetarian recipe
-- I eat vegetarians daily, and enjoy finding new ways to cook them.

PLEDGE 2: I ride social!
-- Not sure what that means. "Socially" or what? I took my horses with me yesterday when I went to the vet. Maybe that was social.

PLEDGE 3: I dive into data
-- I avoid diving. I frequently inspect data to discover whether or not it is valid. A preponderance of the digits 1, 3, 7 and 9, over 0, 2, 4, 5, 6, and 8 in a set of data suggests that someone who believes odd digits are "more random" than even ones made up the numbers.

PLEDGE 4: I reach out to my city leaders to challenge them to #movethedate
-- I avoid my city leaders. As Tevye said, "May the Lord bless and keep the Tsar--far away from us!"

PLEDGE 5: I take on food waste
-- Daily. I shovel food waste produced by my horses. Lots of it. I also occasionally read words produced by people in Washington.

PLEDGE 6: I donate to support one planet prosperity
-- "One person" prosperity, if possible. Me.

PLEDGE 7: I calculate my own Earth Overshoot Day and become a Footprint
-- My horses do this for me. They overshoot by a few inches and step on my feet. I become their footprint. Ummm, hoofprint.

That scare has been around before.
See- The Club of Rome, The Limits to Growth. 1972
It was predicted (by modeling techniques usual in those studies) that
major resources would have been used up by the mid nineties.
See also 'peak oil'.

I haven't looked at it but I suspect that it may even be accurate....however it probably assumes that everybody in the world uses resources at the rate you do....and for that matter...I do. This assumes every guy in India or Africa or in outer Mongolia that barely lives a subsistence lifestyle would use resources at the rate we do. If that was to happen....yes there would not be enough! In order to put weight on something like this you have to be a collectivist and reason somehow that resources have to be divvied up equally amongst everybody. Well that is communism and we all know how destructive that is to the resource base, never mind humanity. Fact of the matter is...while we are all born the same way [equally in the eyes of god if you are so inclined] we are not born in to the same opportunities and we certainly don't have the same outcomes. If you are one of these nitwit collectivists that is wealthy enough to have the leisure think that we should all have the same and no one should have any more, you should kill yourself because there is no way to divvy it up equally and you are getting too much...[you greedy bastard]. If you are like me....you are going to be grateful that you were born in the west and have all these fabulous opportunities to [as a middle class american] actually live better than a Roman emperor of old.

They want us all...gone! off the face of the earth...until that is, they realize...that means them too!

They have no clue that the universe showers our earth, our sun and the other planets with resources everyday...if not directly then it's effects upon earth itself creates and replenishes resources. (electric universe theory). Will it keep up with us?..not likely, but we, as amazing value creators, get closer everyday to creating resource for ourselves.

I remember, back in college in economics class the professor always stated that economics was the study of the efficient use of resources but every example of past use of resources showed a dramatic waist of resources...he failed to include mankind's learning curve...a learning cuve the "Left" seems to forget cause they not only judge the past by the present but also think their own excrement does not stink.

I'm tempted to repeat a statement of a Richard Prior skit in response...(you might imagine how that goes)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They need a Big Carbon size 10 up their behinds...spare your footprint on their butt...spoil the child...

I'm not rich nor poor, so not sure about the standard of living. But I am a producer that is not sitting around in my cave cowering because a group of cronies are trying to get rich at my expense.

I do live in the country and drive 70 miles a day round trip to my office. I've also bought a small farm and doing many repairs so considered that I create more trash than my neighbors. But that is a loaded question itself. I don't have a clue how much garbage my neighbors generate nor do I care.

Personally, I think the test is intended to mislead. It is just like the 97% of scientists...

I'm sure that in the past month, Al Gore has already used up all that you'll save in the next 50 years ;^)

Here's to gin and tonic, cabernet sauvignon, ribeyes, coq au vin, massaman curry, Tom Kha Gai, and bouillabaisse.

May you earn a bounty of resources , my friend!